Political pundits had opined that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro would be Dear Kamala’s best choice for running mate.
He is a moderate who hails from a swing state that could help push the communist/globalist crime syndicate into the White House in November.
This from frontpagemag.com.
However, being pro-Israel and pro-school choice disqualified him.
Instead, Dear Kamala picked far-leftist Tim Walz as her running mate. The Minnesota governor’s “accomplishments” align with the Bernie Sanders/Gavin Newsom playbook.
To wit:
– [E]ven though Minnesota already had the fifth-highest top income-tax rate among the states, 9.85% on earnings above $193,000 for a single filer, Walz added a 1% surtax on net investment income above $1 million while reducing deductions,
– He has made an estimated 81,000 illegal immigrants in the state eligible for driver’s licenses, along with health insurance through the MinnesotaCare program,
– As a fervent believer in climate action,’ Walz has mandated public utilities generate 80% carbon-free electricity by 2030, ramping up to 100% by 2040,
– He subsidizes electric vehicles by ‘requiring EV charging infrastructure within or adjacent to new commercial and multi-family buildings,’
– Minnesota now has one of the nation’s most permissive abortion statutes, with essentially no limits and no age consideration for minors,
– During the Covid craze, Walz was a hysteric of the highest order. He forced masks onto children as young as five, placed strict limits on outdoor gatherings, and encouraged Minnesotans to report their neighbors for violations of social distancing rules, and
– [H]e spent much of the state’s allotment of federal Covid funds on items that had little or nothing to do with the pandemic.
– – Walz oversaw the use of more than $4.3 million to cover parking costs at state facilities for state employees and visitors,
– – The state used $1 million to fund a study on the feasibility of paid family leave, and another $1 million to fund a statewide gun safety ad campaign, and
– – Another $7.8 million was distributed to homeless shelters in Minneapolis to cover ongoing costs.
Conflating Bernie Sanders and Mr. Rogers, he revealed his core beliefs when he asserted:
One person’s socialism
is another person’s neighborliness.
Walz is particularly deplorable on education spending:
– Showing his ‘neighborliness,’ he signed a universal school free breakfast and lunch bill in 2023 that feeds all students on the taxpayers’ dime,
– He signed a bill into law that provided $2.2 billion in new funding for K-12 education, a significant hike in the state’s education expenditures—about $400 per student per year more than the previous outlay,
– [H]e passed record spending in early childcare and learning last year. As part of a $1.3 billion package of childcare spending for families and providers, Walz used $316 million to boost wages for childcare providers,
– [He] approved an additional $650 million for higher education to implement new programs for financial aid and workforce initiatives in the 2024-25 school year, and
– He passed the North Star Promise program, which provides free college for students—including illegal [aliens]—who have a family income under $80,000.
In addition to being a spendaholic, Walz is an active proponent of all the trendy woke education and gender issues. As Heritage Foundation scholars Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick note, Walz championed:
[T]he creation of an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Center at the Minnesota Department of Education to build toward an education system committed to anti-racism.
As governor:
– Walz signed an executive order that ensured minors could undergo gender-affirming care treatments ranging from surgery to speech therapy that ‘support a transgender or nonbinary person in their gender transition,’
– He doubled down by directing state agencies ‘to refuse approval of health plans that do not cover gender-affirming care and to investigate any complaints about denial of gender-affirming care,’
– Walz signed into law what the LBGTQ rights group GLAAD calls a ‘trans refuge bill,’ explaining that it ‘protects transgender people and their families from legal repercussions for traveling to Minnesota to receive transgender health care,’
– He saw to it that pro-trans/anti-female policies were incorporated into schools. In particular, the governor fought to allow biological males to compete in female school sports,
– [He] earned the moniker “’Tampon Tim’ by signing into law a bill that places ‘free’ tampons and menstrual pads in all school restrooms, including those for boys. As the bill’s sponsor explained: ‘Not all students who menstruate are female. We need to make sure all students have access to these products.’ In backing the bill, Walz endorsed the idea that boys could go into girls’ bathrooms and vice versa, and
– This past May, Walz signed a law barring parental groups from removing books or materials from Minnesota school libraries based on content, calling the parental efforts ‘regressive.’ Walz apparently thinks that educators’ whims-du-jour, trumps the role of mothers and fathers.
NOTE: All the above have many parents aghast.
Parents Defending Education senior adviser and Virginia mother Michele Exner said Walz’s education record has created setbacks for Minnesota families and students:
Since he has been in office, national testing scores have steadily declined, and the state’s education system ranking has taken a nosedive since 2018.
His radical progressive policies have prioritized menstrual products in boys’ bathrooms over tackling the education losses his own policies created.
Not surprisingly, Walz, a former high school teacher, and American Federation of Teachers member is worshipped by the teachers’ unions. National Education Association president Becky Pringle heartily endorsed him, calling him an “exceptional choice.”
And AFT president Randi Weingarten couldn’t contain herself:
We’re so excited….[yada, yada, yada…]
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued a warning about Walz after Weingarten’s exuberant praise, simply and precisely asserting on X:
Anyone who makes Randi this excited is a 5-alarm fire for parents and students.
Further, Tim Walz faced heavy scrutiny following a New York Post report that highlighted his recurrent engagements with Chinese state-run institutions.
Walz lectured on international relations at a state-run university in China and made numerous trips to the country.
During these trips, Walz taught American culture and English to students and received numerous gifts from his hosts. He even registered a for-profit company in 1995 to organize student trips to China.
This extensive involvement has raised alarms about potential national security risks, given China’s ongoing strategic challenges to U.S. interests.
If installed, the Harris-Walz ticket will be an unmitigated disaster for our country—Barack Hussein Obama on steroids.
